Livermore News

A stalwart tenant and full buildings can make all the difference: Three Livermore buildings that Comcast is using for its regional headquarters have been bought for about $50 million by CB Richard Ellis Realty Trust.

The play's the thing to catch the conscience of...Livermore? That's right, Livermore, Calif., will be host to one of Shakespeare's most popular plays this summer.

Free outdoor movies will be offered this summer in Pleasanton for the first time as the city joins a number of East Bay towns and venues offering the family-friendly entertainment option.

The cause of a fire that did significant damage to two houses in Livermore last week is unknown, the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department said.

Every day at the massive Altamont Landfill near Livermore, sanitation trucks dump tons upon tons of trash.

SUMMER BRINGS OUT the pioneer spirit, which in the Bay Area manifests itself in picnics, hikes and, when night begins to fall, al fresco theater.

THE LIVERMORE Shakespeare Festival will have two plays in repertory this summer at its home at Concannon Vineyard in Livermore - "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Shakespeare's delightful comedy about love that opens July 10; and "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov, which had a short, successful run at the Bankhead Theater earlier this year.

With all the gloomy economic news, an East Bay man has decided to do something hopeful.

There's only one place in the Bay Area where you can get career counseling while checking out a book.

Q: Whoa, Mr. Roadshow! Were you short on space the other day? Yes, it's legal to park in front of someone else's house, as you wrote.

This Fourth of July, with penny-pinching on the minds of many, there is plenty of holiday weekend fun to be had close to home and on the cheap.

IN JANUARY 2008, a special court in the valley held its inauguration. The Tri-Valley Youth Court is a program designed to divert youthful offenders who have committed nonviolent minor offenses from the formal juvenile court system.

A 58-year-old Dublin man was taken by helicopter to a local trauma center after he was run over by his own truck in a freak accident at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

A traffic stop became a little bizarre Wednesday night when police found more than 100 marijuana plants and a dead man's body inside a van they pulled over.

The driver of a white BMW 2004 linked to a hit-and-run accident Monday evening on northbound Interstate 680 has turned herself in, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Newly released budget projections for the Livermore school district paint a picture that officials can only describe as scary.

'METAMORPHOSES," Mary Zimmerman's evocative retelling of Ovid's stories of gods, mortals and the Greek mythology version of history and creation, opens at 8 tonight in Mountain View's Pear Avenue Theatre.

Family and friends of a Union city man killed in a workplace stabbing were in the courtroom Monday afternoon as his killer was to sentenced to 11 years in state prison.

A San Joaquin County criminal grand jury handed down a 67-count indictment, all felonies, against a former Tracy cosmetic surgeon accused of inappropriately touching dozens of his patients, many while unconscious, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday afternoon.

Jun 19, 2009 6:46 pm US/Pacific LIVERMORE Firefighters battled a grass fire Friday eveningA that had burnedA 500A acres in unincorporated Alameda County, just east of Livermore.A The fireA broke out aboutA 4 p.m. above Corral Hollow Road near Site 300, an experimental test site of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Alameda County fire ...